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The scientific spirit of American humanism / Stephen P. Weldon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weldon, Stephen P., 1962- author.
- Series:
- Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
- Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Religion and science--United States--History--20th century.
- Religion and science.
- Humanism--United States--History--20th century.
- Humanism.
- Humanism, Religious--History--20th century.
- Humanism, Religious.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "A study in the history of science, this book explores the worldview and activism of a like-minded group of American intellectuals living in the twentieth century--from liberal Unitarians of the 1910s to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov in the 1980s. It follows the fortunes of a few generations of ministers, philosophers, and scientists who wanted to replace traditional religion with a modern, scientifically informed kind of humanism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. The scientific spirit of American humanism
- Liberal Christianity and the frontiers of American belief (1800-1920)
- The birth of religious humanism (1900-1920)
- Manifesto for an age of science (1920-1933)
- Philosophers in the pulpit (1910-1940)
- Humanists at war (1935-1945)
- Surviving the nuclear age (1945-1960)
- Scientific humanism and biological man (1957-1972)
- Inside the humanist counterculture (1956-1973)
- Skeptics in the age of Aquarius (1974-1985)
- The fundamentalist challenge (1968-1987)
- Fighting creationism and fundamentalist pseudoscience (1968-1987)
- The humanist ethos of science in modern America
- Epilogue: Science and millennial humanism.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-3858-5
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